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The UN Peacemaker site, which used to be the source of the link to the GFA full text is down, so I have replaced it with a link from the Northern Ireland Office.
Anyway, it is also available from the Irish foreign ministry at: Microsoft Word - Document1 (dfa.ie). Same text, so not put it here also. Nordrhein-Westfalen-CanlntoSpace ( talk) 23:51, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
I came here looking for a detailed account of the negotiations that led to the implementatio of the GFA, but could find neither that nor a linke to where it might be found. Is there such a thing? If not, could we not do with one? Cooke ( talk) 13:31, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
The text of the Agreement does not seem to give it a title, but simply make reference to the parties. When the Agreement was signed, the impression given in the media was that it was known as the Good Friday Agreement. Since the Conservative Party came to office again in the UK, however, the term Belfast Agreement seems to have become quite widely current as well. One can imagine that the unionist movement, being preponderantly Presbyterian in religion, might see the reference to Good Friday as offensively Catholic (though my understanding is that Presbyterians also mark the passion of Christ on Good Friday), and that the close Parliamentary relationship between the Conservatives and the DUP might cause a wider preference for the term "Belfast Agreement". But I would suggest that this article give a little more information on the history of the term "Belfast Agreement" in this context. Deipnosophista ( talk) 12:00, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
The article currently refers to the Agreement by a mix of "Good Friday Agreement" and "Belfast Agreement" seemingly arbitrarily. I think this could potentially cause some confusion. I think it might be beneficial to standardize the name in one of three ways:
Placeholderer ( talk) 18:18, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
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The UN Peacemaker site, which used to be the source of the link to the GFA full text is down, so I have replaced it with a link from the Northern Ireland Office.
Anyway, it is also available from the Irish foreign ministry at: Microsoft Word - Document1 (dfa.ie). Same text, so not put it here also. Nordrhein-Westfalen-CanlntoSpace ( talk) 23:51, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
I came here looking for a detailed account of the negotiations that led to the implementatio of the GFA, but could find neither that nor a linke to where it might be found. Is there such a thing? If not, could we not do with one? Cooke ( talk) 13:31, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
The text of the Agreement does not seem to give it a title, but simply make reference to the parties. When the Agreement was signed, the impression given in the media was that it was known as the Good Friday Agreement. Since the Conservative Party came to office again in the UK, however, the term Belfast Agreement seems to have become quite widely current as well. One can imagine that the unionist movement, being preponderantly Presbyterian in religion, might see the reference to Good Friday as offensively Catholic (though my understanding is that Presbyterians also mark the passion of Christ on Good Friday), and that the close Parliamentary relationship between the Conservatives and the DUP might cause a wider preference for the term "Belfast Agreement". But I would suggest that this article give a little more information on the history of the term "Belfast Agreement" in this context. Deipnosophista ( talk) 12:00, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
The article currently refers to the Agreement by a mix of "Good Friday Agreement" and "Belfast Agreement" seemingly arbitrarily. I think this could potentially cause some confusion. I think it might be beneficial to standardize the name in one of three ways:
Placeholderer ( talk) 18:18, 11 February 2024 (UTC)